the bugs do battle in our bodies

in savage stark ferocity

and we wash pills down with hot toddies

to give them reciprocity

and other liquidss are ingested

like flaxseed tea and orange juice

until the bugly throng is bested

and illness-train shows its caboose.

i say a prayer of avid thanks

and write this verse quick and informal

rejoin the unafflicted ranks

and sound huzzahs for being normal.